Your restaurant reservation system, the same one your team uses at the host stand with the synced live diary, the same floor plan, and every guest detail, now travels with you.
Whether you’re mid-service, in the back office, or out on errands, the Now Book It iOS app is designed to let you stay where you are, and still stay on top of bookings.
Keep reading to learn what the app can do, how it fits into your day-to-day operations, and why thousands of restaurant owners and managers are already using it to run sharper services.
What is the Now Book It app?
The Now Book It app is a mobile extension of Now Book It’s restaurant reservation system. It’s designed for restaurant owners, venue managers, and front-of-house staff who need real-time access to their booking diary without being tied to a fixed terminal.
The app gives you live access to the same data and core features — reservations, table availability, guest notes, blockouts and walk-in management. The essentials that your team rely on during every service.
With feedback from venues we work with, we built the iOS app as a direct response to how people in hospo actually work: fast, on-the-floor, and rarely at a desk.
What can you do with the Now Book It app?
Here’s what the app puts in your hands — or your front-of-house manager’s — from the moment service begins.
See your service at a glance
Your bookings and run sheet is updated in real time and accessible from the app. Staff heading into a service can check what’s ahead without needing to gather around a single screen — helpful for pre-service briefings when the team is already spread across the venue.
View and manage reservations in real time
Need to create or adjust a reservation on the fly? Move a booking to a different table, update a party size, or mark a table as seated without walking back to the host stand.
Manage walk-ins without missing a beat
Not forgetting that walk-ins are a fact of life in hospo! The app makes slotting them in straightforward: you can see live table availability and open gaps in the service schedule, then add a walk-in directly from your phone. No double-handling.
Know your guests before they arrive
The details matter. If a returning guest has a dietary requirement on file, or a booking tag that flags a birthday or anniversary, your team can see that information in the app before the guests sit down. Customer profiles, visit history, tags, and contact details — everything you need to deliver a great experience is always within reach.
Stay across your floor plan
Best on the iPad, the app reflects your live floor plan, giving you a bird’s-eye view of which tables are occupied, which are available, and how the sections are tracking. For floor managers moving between sections, this visibility means faster decisions and fewer communication gaps.
Managing with your reservation app changes operations
When your booking system lives only on a fixed terminal, your team’s ability to make real-time decisions is constrained. Whoever is at the desk has the information, and everyone else is working off memory or communication.
The Now Book It app fixes that gap. When your floor manager can check availability from the floor, respond to a walk-in request without leaving a section, or pull up a guest note before approaching a table, service becomes more responsive.
If you’re a venue that runs with Now Book It, you already know the system. The app now extends that familiarity to wherever service takes you and your team.
The Now Book It app is built by people in hospitality, for people in hospitality
The Now Book It app is built for anyone in your venue who needs booking system access away from the host stand. That might includes:
- Venue managers who move between sections during service and need a quick view of table status or upcoming reservations
- Restaurant owners who want to check how a service is tracking without being physically in the venue
- Floor managers handling walk-ins or table reassignments on the move
- Front-of-house staff who want to check guest notes or run sheet details during service
If your team currently makes decisions based on what they can remember from the pre-service briefing, the app gives them live data in their pocket.
How the reservation app fits into your existing setup
The Now Book It app is available for iOS and can be downloaded now from the App Store. If your venue is already running on Now Book It, you’re all set up to use it.
The app doesn’t require a separate setup or a different account. It connects directly to your existing Now Book It restaurant reservation system, so any changes made in the app are reflected on every other device your team uses — and vice versa.
That means your host at the front desk and your manager on the floor are always looking at the same information. No lag and zero risk of acting on outdated data.
What restaurant owners are saying about the Now Book It app
Venues using Now Book It consistently highlight how the system reduces friction for their teams, and the app takes that one step further by removing the need to be at a fixed station to stay across service.
Shelly Beach Golf Club, one of our long-time venues running on Now Book It’s reservation system, put it simply: “Love the app, the staff all find it easy to use.”
Ease of use matters in hospitality. Tools that are complex to operate don’t have a place in the pace of a busy service. The iOS app is built with the same philosophy that runs through the rest of the Now Book It platform: clear, direct, and fast to navigate.
A restaurant reservation system that goes where you go
As a hospitality professional, you know that the decisions that matter happen on the floor in real time, with limited margin for delay. Something as simple as who gets seated where, how to handle a last-minute no-show, and whether there’s room for a walk-in party of six, can change the flow of service.
The Now Book It iOS app is built around that reality so that your team can access the reservation system and guest data from wherever they are.
Not on Now Book It yet? There’s no better time to see what the platform — and the app — can do for your venue. Book a demo to learn more.
